An anti-aircraft gun is seen here in front of the Bushehr Nuclear Reactor Building at the Nuclear Power plant in Southern Iran.Russia has delivered uranium to Iran which vows to expand its controversial enrichment program to make fuel for a different type of reactor that it is building in the Khuzestan Province---Russia has been likewise helping Iran to construct the nuclear reactor at the Bushehr Plant on the Persian Gulf.
China has sold Iran solid fuel technology and in 2002 Iran developed the Fateh 110 single stage solid propellant surface to surface missile with a range of 125 miles. According to Mossad, Iran now has developed its first intermediate range solid fuel ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers or 1250 miles.
Likewise Iran has acknowledged the development of a super computer for dual use applications. The Fars News Agency has reported that the computer contained 216 AMD processors and a theoretical peak performance of 860 gig-flops. Likewise the Fars News Agency says that Iran has developed the Ashoura Missile with a range of 1250 miles, similar in range to its Shihab-3 Missile. Mossad says this would enable for Iran to rapidly prepare for an attack on Israel and threaten United States interests in the region.
Liquid fuel for the Shibab-3 Missile requires 14 hours of preparations in contrast to the Ashoura Missile which could be stored with its solid fuel and taken directly from the warehouse to the launcher.
The pace of military planning in Israel has accelerated, Mossad disagrees with the U.S. National Intelligence Assessment providing its own intelligence assessment---given Iran's current rate of progress being made on its uranium enrichment program, Iran could have enough fissile material for a nuclear warhead by 2009
Iran and Russia have agreed on plans to complete the Bushehr Nuclear Reactor, with a time frame to be announced by the end of the month. Russia state owned Atomstroiexport prime contractor of Bushehr said it plans to launch full operations of the 1,000 megawatt reactor by October, 2008
